A hundred years ago mad King Ludwig II of Bavaria built an insanely expensive castle whose opulence was so frivolous, his ministers murdered him and dumped him into a lake. “Eleven decades later, another “madness” as great as Ludwig’s has been built. Rising up from the shores of the Starnberger lake, beside Neuschwanstein castle, an entire theatre has been constructed for the sole purpose of staging ‘Ludwig II, The Musical.’ At a cost of £26 million, it is the most expensive musical in the world. – Sunday Times (UK)